All About Pocket Knives

Those thorns must wreck havoc on ATV tires.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 12:29 pm Those thorns must wreck havoc on ATV tires.

Indeed they do. We keep the green slime stuff in the tires, and keep a plug kit under the seats.

Unk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 4:20 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 12:29 pm Those thorns must wreck havoc on ATV tires.

Indeed they do. We keep the green slime stuff in the tires, and keep a plug kit under the seats.

I have one front tire with 4 plugs in the same hole.

Unk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 2:42 am

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:18 pm

treefarmer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 12, 2025 4:30 pm

... Flip flops don't work so well in the heavy cactus and mesquite areas

I was walking around on the concrete and felt some pain in my foot. I immediately knew what it was - a big ol' mesquite thorn through my sneaker. I dug it out with a pocket knife - thankfully it didn't poke all the way into my foot.

Watch out for them darn mesquite thorns Unk!!! ... They get me all the time (as demonstrated in my prior post ). They are sharper than a nail and punch right through your shoe like a punji stick!

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 11:04 pm Had a helper while I was out doing my dead end flushes on the water system.

C-W .... DON'T TOUCH THAT FROG!!! IT LOOKS LIKE A VARITY OF THE DEADLY POISON DART FROG! ....

I hope I'm not too late and you read this post... before your "dead" end flushes might end up a more "dead" than you like ....

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:43 pm C-W .... DON'T TOUCH THAT FROG!!! IT LOOKS LIKE A VARITY OF THE DEADLY POISON DART FROG! ....

I hope I'm not too late and you read this post... before your "dead" end flushes might end up a more "dead" than you like ....

Google lens told me it was a Cope Tree frog. Not dangerous, but I gave him space either way.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:52 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:43 pm C-W .... DON'T TOUCH THAT FROG!!! IT LOOKS LIKE A VARITY OF THE DEADLY POISON DART FROG! ....

I hope I'm not too late and you read this post... before your "dead" end flushes might end up a more "dead" than you like ....

Google lens told me it was a Cope Tree frog. Not dangerous, but I gave him space either way.

Phew ... That was close!!! ( sort of ... ) I'm glad you made out alive! .... Well... better to err on the side of caution, then to be lying dead on the ground from fatal toxins coursing through your blood stream....

Unk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 4:20 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 12:29 pm Those thorns must wreck havoc on ATV tires.

Indeed they do. We keep the green slime stuff in the tires, and keep a plug kit under the seats.

Same here! We don’t have mesquite, but I’m not sure they’re any worse than the black locust and honey locust we have here. Sharp, and nearly as strong as steel nails. We also have our share of the interesting prickly ash (aka Toothache Tree, aka Hercules Club, aka Tingle Tongue Tree). I keep green slime in all the tires - tractors, mowers, UTV, and even then get an occasional flat. Getting a flat on a tractor can be a disaster! Best case you’re out of commission for a couple hours.

We also have our share of thorny Bois d’Arc trees, but they’re not as prone to sprouting in the pastures. I’ll see your thorns, and raise you two!

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 1:38 am
Same here! We don’t have mesquite, but I’m not sure they’re any worse than the black locust and honey locust we have here. Sharp, and nearly as strong as steel nails. We also have our share of the interesting prickly ash (aka Toothache Tree, aka Hercules Club, aka Tingle Tongue Tree).

Have you tried the toothache tree out? I took the troop on a hike and showed it to them and they all gave it a try. I skinned a piece of the bark off for them and cut them a square to chew on.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 1:29 pm
Have you tried the toothache tree out? I took the troop on a hike and showed it to them and they all gave it a try. I skinned a piece of the bark off for them and cut them a square to chew on.

Yes, many times. I used to teach both Forestry and Wilderness Survival merit badges to scouts. Whenever we encountered one of the trees I’d get them to try it. Also having the trees here, whenever I have visitors out and about I usually show them the trees and cut a piece for them.

Funny story - somehow we started discussing it one day at work, and several co-workers had not heard of the tree. Next day I took a freshly cut stick to work. After lunch I started cutting small pieces and passing them out for them to try. One guy, an old hippy who worked in accounting, after chewing his piece a bit, laughingly said “Hmm, very interesting. I wonder what would happen if you smoked it?” (I don’t recommend trying that - do so at your own risk)!

For those not familiar with the tree, it has herbal and medicinal properties. Chewing bark numbs the mouth. Native Americans used it as a pain killer for toothache. Other parts of the tree were used for spice in cooking. Here is a link to more info about the tree and its uses. https://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/08/p ... -tree.html.

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 1:38 am

Unk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 4:20 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 12:29 pm Those thorns must wreck havoc on ATV tires.

Indeed they do. We keep the green slime stuff in the tires, and keep a plug kit under the seats.

Same here! We don’t have mesquite, but I’m not sure they’re any worse than the black locust and honey locust we have here. Sharp, and nearly as strong as steel nails. We also have our share of the interesting prickly ash (aka Toothache Tree, aka Hercules Club, aka Tingle Tongue Tree). I keep green slime in all the tires - tractors, mowers, UTV, and even then get an occasional flat. Getting a flat on a tractor can be a disaster! Best case you’re out of commission for a couple hours.

We also have our share of thorny Bois d’Arc trees, but they’re not as prone to sprouting in the pastures. I’ll see your thorns, and raise you two!

Ken

Definitely not tire friendly. I use Slime too, but sometimes a plug is also necessary. I'm on my first set of aftermarket front tires but second set of rears. I'm running ITP Holeshot ATRs on the 2005 Rincon, good for traction and stability. A couple shots from this past April.

Here’s a picture showing the trunk of a mature Prickly Ash. They often have multiple trunks like this example. Every one of those “bumps”on the trunk is, or was, the site of a thorn. The trunks pictured are about 4 to 6 inches in diameter. This is the source of one of the tree’s common names “Hercules Club”. You can readily see how a formidable weapon could be fashioned from a trunk or limb.

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 3:46 pm Here’s a picture showing the trunk of a mature Prickly Ash. They often have multiple trunks like this example. Every one of those “bumps”on the trunk is, or was, the site of a thorn. The trunks pictured are about 4 to 6 inches in diameter. This is the source of one of the tree’s common names “Hercules Club”. You can readily see how a formidable weapon could be fashioned from a trunk or limb.

Ken

I grew up in Texas and I spent many years following coon hounds thru the woods in West Texas. I climbed a lot of trees jumping coons out and I never encountered anything like that. I had no clue that anything like that even existed, especially in Texas.
What a great education we get here on the forum!

Ray

Paladin wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 3:54 pm
I grew up in Texas and I spent many years following coon hounds thru the woods in West Texas. I climbed a lot of trees jumping coons out and I never encountered anything like that. I had no clue that anything like that even existed, especially in Texas.
What a great education we get here on the forum!

Ray

I’m surprised you never encountered one, but I bet raccoons are smart enough not to climb one if there is a close by alternative. According to the tree’s range map it’s found as far west as the Big Bend area in Texas, but not in NW Texas. (I don’t think there are any trees native to the Llano Estacado)! Around here they’re mostly along fence rows (probably planted by birds) and creek bottoms. We used to have coon hunters here but not any now. Probably why we have way too many raccoons. That and fire ants are why we no longer have quail here.

Ken

Ken, I had never seen or heard of a prickly ash - what a cool looking tree.

Once you get past the thorns on the mesquite tree, it sure has pretty wood. I usually grab some mesquite when we go out to my buddies ranch. He likes to watch Kent Rollins (Youtube Chuckwagon cook), and he always cooks something really good for us when we are out there. So I made him a "Cowboy Spatula" out of mesquite from his ranch. Kent Rollins sells similar ones on his website.

Unk wrote: ↑Wed Sep 17, 2025 1:34 am Ken, I had never seen or heard of a prickly ash - what a cool looking tree.

Once you get past the thorns on the mesquite tree, it sure has pretty wood. I usually grab some mesquite when we go out to my buddies ranch. He likes to watch Kent Rollins (Youtube Chuckwagon cook), and he always cooks something really good for us when we are out there. So I made him a "Cowboy Spatula" out of mesquite from his ranch. Kent Rollins sells similar ones on his website.

Cool spatula!

Very nice, Unk!

Thanks guys.

I wish I could say that I hiked to the top of the mountain to take this picture, but I was just driving to the area and had to stop and look at it. This is Turner Falls in Davis, Oklahoma and though I’ve been there many times I still stop and look at it Every time I go by.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 20, 2025 10:34 pm I wish I could say that I hiked to the top of the mountain to take this picture, but I was just driving to the area and had to stop and look at it. This is Turner Falls in Davis, Oklahoma and though I’ve been there many times I still stop and look at it Every time I go by.

Was there as a young teen. Fun place.

Those 650 Rincons are great work horses .
Here’s a 520 fresh off my lift , gotta make sure he makes it to and from the deer stands , very swampy here in Florida . Lift kit , 28” tires , snorkel , rad relocate , 3500 winch .

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 2:50 pm

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 1:38 am

Unk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 4:20 pm

Indeed they do. We keep the green slime stuff in the tires, and keep a plug kit under the seats.

Same here! We don’t have mesquite, but I’m not sure they’re any worse than the black locust and honey locust we have here. Sharp, and nearly as strong as steel nails. We also have our share of the interesting prickly ash (aka Toothache Tree, aka Hercules Club, aka Tingle Tongue Tree). I keep green slime in all the tires - tractors, mowers, UTV, and even then get an occasional flat. Getting a flat on a tractor can be a disaster! Best case you’re out of commission for a couple hours.

We also have our share of thorny Bois d’Arc trees, but they’re not as prone to sprouting in the pastures. I’ll see your thorns, and raise you two!

Ken

Definitely not tire friendly. I use Slime too, but sometimes a plug is also necessary. I'm on my first set of aftermarket front tires but second set of rears. I'm running ITP Holeshot ATRs on the 2005 Rincon, good for traction and stability. A couple shots from this past April.

ScoutKnives wrote: ↑Sun Sep 21, 2025 3:19 pm Those 650 Rincons are great work horses .
Here’s a 520 fresh off my lift , gotta make sure he makes it to and from the deer stands , very swampy here in Florida . Lift kit , 28” tires , snorkel , rad relocate , 3500 winch .

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 2:50 pm

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 1:38 am

Same here! We don’t have mesquite, but I’m not sure they’re any worse than the black locust and honey locust we have here. Sharp, and nearly as strong as steel nails. We also have our share of the interesting prickly ash (aka Toothache Tree, aka Hercules Club, aka Tingle Tongue Tree). I keep green slime in all the tires - tractors, mowers, UTV, and even then get an occasional flat. Getting a flat on a tractor can be a disaster! Best case you’re out of commission for a couple hours.

We also have our share of thorny Bois d’Arc trees, but they’re not as prone to sprouting in the pastures. I’ll see your thorns, and raise you two!

Ken

Definitely not tire friendly. I use Slime too, but sometimes a plug is also necessary. I'm on my first set of aftermarket front tires but second set of rears. I'm running ITP Holeshot ATRs on the 2005 Rincon, good for traction and stability. A couple shots from this past April.

Awesome quad, man!!! Looks like you have plenty of clearance, even if you're submarining.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 20, 2025 10:34 pm I wish I could say that I hiked to the top of the mountain to take this picture, but I was just driving to the area and had to stop and look at it. This is Turner Falls in Davis, Oklahoma and though I’ve been there many times I still stop and look at it Every time I go by.

Looks like a cool place!

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 20, 2025 10:34 pm I wish I could say that I hiked to the top of the mountain to take this picture, but I was just driving to the area and had to stop and look at it. This is Turner Falls in Davis, Oklahoma and though I’ve been there many times I still stop and look at it Every time I go by.

The wife and I, along with some friends, went camping there back in the 1980s. Had a good time.

Unk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 10:42 pm
The wife and I, along with some friends, went camping there back in the 1980s. Had a good time.

doglegg wrote: ↑Sun Sep 21, 2025 2:18 am Was there as a young teen. Fun place.

It’s a beautiful spot and a big change from the flat prairie land around DFW. It’s odd it’s fairly flat until about 3 miles before the falls then all that topography comes out of nowhere.